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Does anyone have or know where I can get a list of all the Genre Type and Subtypes that Kodi uses? The old lists I have found are not accurate. Stuff has been deleted and other stuff added. I understand it is based on DVB standards, but I really need the actual integers for each type and what label they are for.
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Genres are whatever the site/s provides to the scraper.
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Thanks, but can you tell me where the different subtypes are. I'm going by this old list that looks like this for the first catagory mociedrama
CONTENTMASK_MOVIEDRAMA 0x10
Subtypes:
DETECTIVE_THRILLER 0x01
ADVENTURE_WESTERN_WAR 0x02
SF_FANTASY 0x03
COMEDY 0x04
SOAP_MELODRAMA_FOLKLORIC 0x05
ROMANCE 0x06
SERIOUS_CLASSICAL_RELIGIOUS_HISTORICAL_DRAMA 0x07
ADULT_MOVIE_DRAMA 0x08
I have a list of subtypes for each one you listed, but I'm finding that they have changed.
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2015-12-07, 21:11
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-08, 02:03 by fishersman.)
I was able to match each category and go through them looking for subtypes. and the labels for each. 240 is now labeled DRAMA if you want to change that in your notes. It looks like it was put in to satisfy TV as it's the same as 16 without the movie references. Is there a way to modify any of that? I'd like to add a couple of subcategories that were eliminated, Sitcom and Reality. Sitcoms were under show and reality was under hobby. The other thing I have noticed is that the genre that I get when looking at the guide is the exact string that the guide stores in it's database. That is also the data stored with the recording after it's made, but Kodi will not use that. With mediaportal I have to use a mapping xml file. Why do the recordings need to be mapped into the standard codes, but guide data does not? New to all this and just trying to make sense of it.
